Wilfred Buck (2024)

Directed by

Lisa Jackson

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 37m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows Cree astronomer Wilfred Buck as he tells his life story from a difficult childhood to becoming a knowledge keeper of Indigenous star lore. It explains how he teaches traditional First Nations ways of understanding the sky.

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What happens

Wilfred Buck is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Lisa Jackson. The film is a portrait of Wilfred Buck, a Cree man from Manitoba who survived a troubled and impoverished upbringing to become a celebrated keeper and teacher of traditional First Nations approaches to astronomy. The film is partially based on Buck's own 2021 memoir I Have Lived Four Lives. The film premiered in March 2024 at the CPH:DOX festival in Denmark, and had its Canadian premiere at the 2024 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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